"Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine." - Francis Ford Coppola
Probably most famous for his epic, THE SEVEN SAMURAI, Akira Kurosawa has always been m...

They say where there's a will, there's a way and if ever a profession needed to believe this mantra, it's that of screenwriting. So pump yourself up, splash some cold water on your face and, as infamous ENTOURA...

Be in no doubt about it - if you’re going to write for the screen, then you’re going to be writing genre. Thriller, sci-fi, crime, fantasy, comedy, horror and so on, everyone wants genre and these days they oft...

What kind of screenwriter are you? Industrial Scripts takes a look at the myriad personalities of screenwriters to feature on the silver screen...
1. SUNSET BOULEVARD – The Broke Screenwriter
The top dog ...

The World's Highest Paid Screenwriters
Screenwriting can mean big money for those at the top. After all, screenplays usually account for around 1-3% of a film’s budget, and when a budget soars as Hollywood t...

Beneath the murky waters of the western film industry, the odyssey towards equality is ongoing, and according to ‘Celluloid Ceiling’ - an industry consensus conducted by the Centre for Women in Film and Tel...

Where is the female talent of screenwriters & directors? Recent figures cast a gloomy picture; employment of women in film and TV has fallen to 15 year lows; only two female directed films cracked 2013’s To...

Why all the Script Consultants?
After spending much of the 70s, 80s and 90s in the wilderness, script development is finally getting its due in the UK as a vital cog in the film-making process, slowly overturn...

Every screenwriter at one time experiences the look of confusion and ridicule in the face of a friend, producer or agent when they pitch their craziest or most ambitious ideas – but fear not, even som...

13 Stereotypes of the British Film Industry: True or False?
Does the British film industry produce the best talent? Does the land of Shakespeare respect the writer? Is anything happening outside of London? I...

10 British Screenwriters Who Broke Into Hollywood
Our own screenwriting talent is well known on these shores – Simon Beaufoy, Richard Curtis, David Hare, Abi Morgan, Tom Stoppard, Peter Morgan, William Nichols...

As our article on Jeffrey Katzenberg highlighted, gathering industry intel is vital for making it in this business. Industrial Scripts looks to the best Twitter Screenwriting resources – from box office numbers...

Becoming a professional screenwriter is one thing, but staying at the top of the Hollywood screenwriters game is quite another. After last week’s look at Screenwriters Who Broke In Late, Industrial Scripts look...

Despite the image of the wunderkind screenwriter a-la Orson Welles or Diablo Cody, many screenwriters broke in late to the game, with a wealth of wisdom and life experience to fuel their writing. As an encourag...

From bringing STAR TREK to the big screen, reviving Disney’s fortunes in the 80s and 90s, to being the K in Dreamworks SKG, Jeffrey Katzenberg has been a pivotal industry figure for four decades.
"I have rhino...

“You can make the movie or you can make excuses”
The path from script to screen is often torturous – but made longer when excuse making and defeatism set in. Industrial Scripts looks at common film industry ...

“I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”
- Liam Neeson...

Friday the 13th is upon us – and to celebrate the day that Jason Voorhees Mrs Voorhees first went on her killing spree, here are some date-inspired, holiday movies, and a few suggestions for untapped potential ...

After Spielberg and Lucas’ dire warnings on the future of the film industry and the growing box office prominence of high budget tentpole releases, many audience members are asking; where are the mid-...

As in previous years, the UK and Irish film community have compiled a list of their most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays that make up the Brit List Scripts 2011. Out of over 160 screenplays nominat...